Bluegrass At Large

Donna Ulisse wants to invite all the fans attending SPBGMA in Nashville at the end of January to stop by her booth #3-B in the Plantation Ballroom to register for a free iPod nano. The drawing will be held at

ARAB, AL (Press Release) - After two months in the hospital and rehabilitation center, the mandolin player for Canaan's Crossing, Junior Saint is finally at his home in Arab, AL. In mid-November Junior suffered a brain aneurysm. He was in

The Tennessean, Nashville's hometown paper, ran a story yesterday (1/18) that Gibson Guitar Corp. will merge with TC Group, a Danish pro audio firm. The merger was announced at the NAMM Winter Show in California, and according to The Tennessean, the

Here's a cautionary story for those bluegrassers who prefer the tone of tortoise shell picks. Agents of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service have indicted 10 people after a multi-year investigation for smuggling hawksbill tortoise shells as well as finished guitar

Beard Guitars has just announced the introduction of their Jerry Douglas signature series model resophonic guitars. The Douglas models were unveiled today at the Winter NAMM show in CA. There aren't many details on the Beard site, but I'm sure we can

Jon Glik, 56, one of bluegrass music's top fiddlers, is fit enough able to play again after a year where he almost died, according to a report on Baltimore's Eyewitness News a few days ago. Regular readers will recall our previous

It's official... The Guinness Book has declared that Brit Johnny Butten is the World's Fastest Banjo Player, besting the record established last year by Todd Taylor. There is no mention of the record yet on the Guinness Records web site,

The 3rd 'Coastline Bluegrass Music Event' takes place on 6-7-8 June 2008 at Plas Uchaf Farm, Near Llandudno Junction, North Wales. The festival is set in the beautiful countryside of North Wales, with spectacular views across the Conwy River and

Our UK correspondent, Richard F. Thompson, put together this report on an important event we missed last fall. In November the legendary folk/bluegrass singer, songwriter and activist Hazel Dickens was honored as one of the inaugural inductees into the West Virginia

"We, *The Fabulous Bagasse Boyz*, do solemnly swear to uphold the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and the Constitution and laws of the State of Louisiana, and that we will faithfully and impartially, discharge and